Chapter 271: The Korean Team's Countermeasures [Thank You for the Little Scholar's Reward]
South Korea's head coach Verbeek is not as confident as South Korea's fans, and he has been worried since watching China's match against Iran. Wu Feng's goalkeeping skills are too strong, and even the current strength of the South Korean team can be said to be impossible to break through.
Even in his home country of the Netherlands, Van der Sar's strength is not necessarily as strong as Wu Feng, and he doesn't understand how the Chinese team suddenly appeared with such a strong goalkeeper, and shocked the German football world in one season.
In the match between the Iranian team and the Chinese team, Iran's world-class offensive players such as Ali Daei, Madavecchia, and Karimi could not score the goal of the Chinese team.
Can anyone in Asia score the Striker's goal?
Can South Korea do what Iran can't?
After a long period of repeated thinking, Verbeek finally came to the conclusion that the current strength of the South Korean team is also difficult to break through the goal guarded by Wu Feng. But fortunately, the strength of the other players in the Chinese team does not match Wu Feng.
If they want to defeat the Chinese team, they can only attack like the Iranian team, but this time Verbeek intends to bomb Wu Feng constantly and never give him a chance to breathe.
Good goalkeeping ability?
I'll just let a few players keep hitting the goal, see how many you can defend, even Van der Sar is down under this kind of attack, I don't believe that a second-tier goalkeeper can keep blocking so many shots.
After the Chinese team qualified from the group, they also began to work hard to study how to deal with the South Korean team, which has always been relatively strong, and the Chinese team has not won against the South Korean team for too long.
And if the Chinese team wants to continue to go in the Asian Cup and reach the semifinals, it must beat the South Korean team.
However, the South Korean team is different from the Iranian team, and the same strength is the first in Asia, but in detail, the resilience of the South Korean team is much stronger than that of the Iranian team. The most feared thing is their endurance and tenacious fighting spirit, which fought until the last moment.
Therefore, the Chinese team can usually upset the Iranian team, but it has not been able to defeat the South Korean team for more than 30 years. There is an element of strength in this, but endurance and tenacious fighting spirit are the more important reasons.
Since the 60s of the 20th century, the South Korean team has gradually become a first-class team in Asia, and after winning a series of top Asian football championships, it has gradually become a traditional powerhouse in Asia over the years.
And since 1986, the South Korean team has reached the final stage of the World Cup for five consecutive times, and once won the fourth place in the 02 World Cup. Although there is an element of cheating, it can also be seen from another aspect of their strength.
South Korea's midfielders have a low center of gravity when running and possessing the ball, and their one-shot accuracy is very high. Under the tutelage of several Dutch coaches, the Korean players have a lot of cooperation with two or three people in a small range, and they are very skilled and tacit.
When their team organizes their attack, they are accustomed to the Dutch holistic style of play, and the whole team runs aggressively. At the same time, they had a high quality of crosses from the flanks and, more importantly, most of the players had a good long-range shot from the edge of the box.
In the face of such a team with strong pressure and scattered scoring ability, the Chinese team's defense is really difficult to work, and it is almost impossible to completely prevent any one. Defend one, and there is another, and if this continues, the defenders will sooner or later fall into chaos.
A long time ago, when Zhu Guanglu was studying in Europe, he often studied the playing style of these strong teams in Asia, and his original intention was to hope that the Chinese team could learn from these teams and then strengthen themselves. didn't expect this day to come so soon, and the Chinese team and the South Korean team will start competing for the semi-final qualification.
Zhu Guanglu knows his team very well, and he knows how many catties and taels the Chinese team has. Playing against the South Korean team, the Chinese team does not have this qualification for the time being, mainly because the Chinese team's midfield ability and South Korea are quite different, and the midfield is untenable, and the offense cannot be played.
can only rely on defense to counterattack, if it is the original Chinese team, it may not be able to resist the oppressive style of play of the South Korean team, but after having Wu Feng, Zhu Guanglu is now very confident, and he even feels that this kind of defense can also face a world-class strong team.
After thinking about it, in the end, Zhu Guanglu still felt that there was only one way to go, and as for what kind of results could be achieved, he pinned everything on Wu Feng.
Soon the quarter-finals began, and to everyone's surprise, Iraq defeated Vietnam again 2-0 to advance to the semi-finals. Next, Japan also defeated Australia by a narrow goal of 5:4 in the penalty shootout and entered the semi-finals.
Originally, everyone thought that Australia and North Korea would qualify for Group A, but they didn't expect Iraq to be the biggest dark horse. After the war, not only was it difficult to get together the 18-man squad, but it was almost impossible to even make up the cost of playing abroad.
However, they were very tenacious, and after a draw with Thailand, they surprised everyone by beating Asian powerhouse Australia 3-0 in the second round of the group stage.
Next is the second round of the quarterfinals, China against South Korea, and Iran against Saudi Arabia, these two games have attracted the attention of countless people, and it can really be described as a strong opposite.
After winning three consecutive games in the group stage, the Chinese team is also the only team in the Asian Cup that has not conceded a goal and won all of them. What makes all the strikers even more embarrassed is that the goalkeeper - Wu Feng who has scored the most goals in the Asian Cup is actually 2 more than the 3 goals in the second place.
This result also made everyone feel even more incredible, the success rate of Wu Feng's free kick was too high, and it made the Iraqi and Japanese teams behind secretly vigilant to prevent the Chinese team's free kicks. There are even many fans who have named Wu Feng the first free kick in Asian football, and spread his "forward circuit", which has also made the Asian football circle further realize the incredible side of Wu Feng's free kick.
The match between China and South Korea is still held at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium, where the Chinese team has played twice and is not unfamiliar. Moreover, the Chinese team also has many local fans here, relatively speaking, the Chinese team is more like playing at home, with an unexpected advantage of the South Korean team.
This China-South Korea match has attracted the attention of most of the local Chinese fans, and even a few days ago, many domestic fans came one after another, in order to see the "revenge" battle of the Chinese team.
This time, the Chinese team must take off the hat of being afraid of South Korea, a hat that has made two generations of fans feel extremely helpless. This is also the main reason why they traveled thousands of miles to come, and it also made Malaysia have a large increase in tourists during this time, all for this quarter-final between China and South Korea.